“But I think, overall, with the whole situation, he did bring light, in a positive way, to what happened. Even though they might thought it was negative, he brought positive energy to the situation because a lot of people don’t know, my dad didn’t even know who Emmett was. He’s thinking I’m talking about Emmitt Smith”

Tax Miseducation of Lauryn Hill:

“I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.”

“Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million. And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that’s not like enough to slavery, I don’t know.”

Ricky Rawse kinda apologizing for r@pey lyrics (but not really):

“I wanna make sure this is clear—woman is the most precious gift known to man. It was a misunderstanding with a lyric, a misinterpretation where the term “r@pe” wasn’t used and I would never use the term “r@pe” in my records. Hip-hop don’t condone that. The streets don’t condone that. Nobody condones that”

More King Yeezus fake-deepery:

“A woman is enslaved to the concept of diamonds are a girl’s best friend like, girls in London don’t even wear engagement rings. That’s all programmed into us” – Breakfast Club interview

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“Swear you take the best pictures you should win an InstaGrammy” — Fabolous, “Know You Better”

Swirly bimbo Zoe Saldana on race:

“I literally run away from people that use words like ‘ethnic.’ It’s preposterous! To me there is no such thing as people of color cause in reality people aren’t white. Paper is white. People are pink”